that-a-way en · ADV
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of thataway (“that way”).
alt of thataway
say what you will fer or ag’in ’em, a redskin is by no means as sartain with powder and ball as a white man. Their gifts don’t seem to lie that-a-way.
1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer: or The First Warpath, page 117: